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Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by system2 »

edm0nd wrote: post #132
alex1138 wrote: post #120

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Okay, "LGBTQ loving" just makes you sound incredibly hateful I agree with the general overall point, certain views get banned, they took down nonewnormal while allowing bots in r/coronavirus to flourish, and other examples I can think of But you... just sound like you're not valid at all, when you lead off like that

there is no way bro is mentally stable w a comment like that prob one of the Q anon and anti-vaxxer types who keeps Alex Jones websites bookmarked and only gets their news from real-patriots-of-america-news.info

Yet, you are the one attacking people because they observe a trend/propaganda. I never called anyone mentally unstable. You straight-up attack personally. Shame on you, go meditate and self-reflect.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by hinkley »

phire wrote: post #153
basch wrote: post #126

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the earlier Digg migration was due to censorship. not being allowed to post encryption keys. pretty common playbook to allow gray and illicit and unattributed content only to clean up once youve hit critical mass.

As one of those users who migrated away around the time of the "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" incident, that's not what happened at all. Digg never had much in the way gray/illicit content; The AACS key was only posted because it was newsworthy (and can a 128bit number even be considered illicit?) There were a bunch of other issues at the time centering around digg power users (like MrBabyMan), and…

When Slashdot was falling apart, RSS was becoming a thing. I just started paying attention to where the articles I liked were coming from, and started pulling their feeds. Yeah, sometimes I would go find the conversation and participate, sometimes I'd even read the article a few hours earlier and had time to ruminate on it. Once in a while I even scooped the usual posters.

I spent less time being dumb with other dumb people on the internet, which was nice. Nicer, at least. That kinda feels like something we lost.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by autoexec »

econ wrote: post #144
autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

Slashdot deserves a honorary mention under not doing what the users want .

Personally, I'd argue they also had a disastrous redesign. At a certain point they required JS to use the site and even reading comments got harder.

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Post by rchaud »

tim333 wrote: post #147
autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

I'm on the old style Reddit and it hasn't really changed much for years. I imagine they are wary of mucking it up after knowing what it did to Digg.

Interestingly, I can still log in and post (and get replies) on Old Reddit with my 15-year old username and pw (no email or other form of auth needed). I remember trying to log in using that acc via New Reddit and it said that user didn't exist! I wonder if Old Reddit-era accounts are on a separate DB.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by rchaud »

jtbayly wrote: post #56
haburka wrote: post #5

I think that social media has been a massive experiment where we asked, what if we let capital interests subvert our desire for community to get us to watch ads? And we have learned that it’s just not a good idea. I think perhaps Digg was one of the better ones but I solemnly wish social media was mostly illegal, especially advertising based, for profit sites. I think hacker news manages to be ok since it doesn’t rel…

HN has advertising too. I don’t claim it’s the same, but let’s be accurate.

Not remotely the same thing. HN's ads are text-only job postings for companies in YC's portfolio. "Online ads" on the other hand are an unregulated wasteland of scams, dropship brands, misinformation, titillation, and culture war ragebait.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by rchaud »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #93
johng wrote: post #59

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Old school forums dedicated to specific topics are still my go to these days.

what are some of these forums? I am quite young so never experienced those.

Some that are ~20 years old and still kicking:

- Headphones and audio equipment: https://www.head-fi.org/forums/

- A/V equipment: https://www.avsforum.com/forums/

- Computers and Tech: https://hardforum.com/

- Music: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/

- General Entertainment and Discussion: https://forums.somethingawful.com/

RIP Notebookreview.net forums, IMDB forums, AbsolutePunk forums, Craigslist message board (still live, but mostly abandoned)

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by IAmGraydon »

autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

As someone who was very active on Digg, it failed because of a massive all-at-once redesign (Digg v4) that made it unrecognizable to those who considered it home. It’s basically the go-to case study in how not to do an overhaul.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by Ralfp »

throwawaylaptop wrote: post #106
lc9er wrote: post #85

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They’re are plenty of bigot-loving Reddit clones, if that’s your thing.

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Funny thing only yesterday I saw a great thread on reddit where people shared stories of their older relatives becoming obsessed about trans people (not in a healthy way) alike to how some became obsessed with the qanon conspiracy before.
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